I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

My best takes are my first two takes.

Nobody can make a movie as exciting as Jerry Bruckheimer. When it's a Jerry Bruckheimer movie that it's going to have lots of chrome and gloss, it's going to be sexy, and it's going to be big and fun.

Don't lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure.

If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important.